Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rim fragment. Translucent blue, turquoise blue and yellow appearing green, opaque white, and colorless enclosing gold leaf. Vertical rim with beveled inner edge; straight side, then curving in sharply. Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from sections of layered canes slanting from top right to bottom left in bands of colorless glass with gold leaf, blue, white, and turquoise blue and yellow. A few pinprick bubbles; exterior polished, with slight pitting of surface bubbles; dulling and creamy weathering on interior and edges. Possibly part of a lid.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art